Liked the video, and love the channel/community quality. My T3 OTK version sails more rakdos-ish with jitte, stargaze and feign death etc. Even more fun and interactions ! For those who struggle with MonoB discard : don't play T2 if you're on the draw, their deck strat is to kill your T2 as wincon. Then Otk when they've tapped out on T5. They always have like 8 removals in hand. On the play they'll have to chump the trickster with the stoopid bat and you get your card back, not that of an issue.
Being loving this deck on my alt account not to many wildcards to build turn inside out over the banesplitters is really nice lets you play around with some flings that don't quite wipe them if they tap out for an unholy annexe or something like that.
Great video as always. This archetype feels really strong but I put in 4 copies of the dreadmaws ire because the trample just feels too necessary. I dont have the chaplenger or the heartfire hero yet but when I get it I'm going to try them out with moght of the meek
I saw another list get Mythic #5 that cut down to 16 lands and ran a full play set of Dreadmaw's Ire and 4 Demonic Ruckus instead of the 2 Blazing Crescendo. You could easily do the same but replace the Demonic Ruckus with Might of the Meek. mtga.untapped.gg/profile/c2429b2c-7795-41ec-b961-c2558c4123df/HG4YBSCKD5AL7CHZL5CIPRH7KU/deck/4c1eff5a-f0f2-42cd-ba23-c561e4a1d118?timeFrame=current_season&constructedType=ranked
Saw another comment mention this but also wanted to thank you for showcasing this deck. Felt like it is realtivaley cheap to craft (4 rares if you skip the lands, less if you already have fugitive codebreakers around) for something so powerful. I never bothered to enter a standard event since i am fully f2p and felt like enough people would tech against aggro decks. Just gave this a go and earned a playin points for the first time since starting on mtga a year ago. So many thanks to sharing the deck, its been really fun to explore and feels (maybe a bit too) strong ^^
@@Arstall Sorry, needed to come back to say this: This deck is an absolute blast. I was always so afraid to lose my gems in standard events. Got 100 games now across 2 accounts in with this deck (yes, i love it ^^) with 71% winrate. Yes, fun decks can be fun but if you win it's even better 😂 Thank you once again for showing this early. Being early payed off so much for this set and getting some games while others dont know yet
Advice for everyone playing this deck- Mull aggressively to be able to either- kill turn 3, or play through one cut down Running 19 lands will screw you at one land some games, but imo is worth it If your going for mythic, conceding early is never bad if you run out of cards in hand! T1 cacophony/Heartfire, is stronger than t1 swiftspear Dont run shocks or lighting bolts despite everyone else running them, not running them will make you win the mirror a RIDICULOUS amount of the time! (I think i won like 70-75% of the mirrors) You can splash green if you want for snakeskin veils and other pump spells, splashing black really doesnt matter lol Any other questions ill answer in comments :D (or corrections, i have been wrong before heh) -Top 20 mythic (ive been mythic before with other decks as well)
Good advice. However, I have my doubts about shocks not improving the mirror. When writing out the lines, shock can be a deciding factor especially on the draw. Just be careful about small personal sample sizes :)
Another thing i forgot to mention is the replacement of shocks are pump spells, which brings your t3 kill up by a significant percentage. If you are on the draw, if your opponent has a shock instead of a t3 kill, you can more reliably kill t3 through the shock (plot a slickshot t2, pump once, shock in response pump again with a snakeskin or dreadmaws ire, then sling it at your opponent) TLDR- Basically you trade the shock for a higher chance of a t3 kill and can play through a shock with pump spells which makes it imo a better option in the mirror
@@Arstall may play with the land for a bit, did 10 more games but never got flooded like the 1st 3 games. interestingly I have seen more U/W then mono black but deck is still performing well
I feel that it is favored since mono green can lack the instant speed interaction to stop the turn 3 combo. Haven't come up much against it though to be fair
If i dont have the B/R lands should i not be running 4 copies of Callous SellSword? Seems like a decent risk of dead cards if i start with one and top deck one early
Hey I have a question about mythic rank: is it worth to try to push asap to high mythic rank? because I noticed that when I go from Diamond to Mythic I get instantly placed into #7xx... So I was thinking if it is better to just wait until the day before the end of the season to climb up to mythic since I'm gonna be placed in that favorable position already, instead of having to play the entire month against mythic decks and risking my 1200 position to get play-in points.
If you push later in the format you'll be placed around 93% in my experience and still have to grind to top 1200. Most grinders I've seen play early, then sit, and then climb again at the end of the season when they decay below 1200
@shadowsun4055 From what I've researched, Mythic has it's own MMR separate from Bronze-Diamond. Then to further complicate the matter, they change the Mythic MMR 2 weeks into the season. Definitely some interesting stuff going on behind the scenes
How did you find out the decks the #1 mythic person played in mtga? Is there a place to go to look that stuff up I’m curious to see what it looks like :0
Brother, thank you very much for the video! It's excellent for those who don't have much time to play. But I DOUBT you only spent that long (4.5 hours) to get mythic. Not that you aren't capable, but Arena's balance prevents this, making you fail lands, muligarize at 5, only buy lands, almost always play on draw... or even making you take 3 or 4 removals in the first turns , making you face decks that have cards that nullify your strategy, etc. WHENEVER you start to have a lot of wins in a row, Arena finds a way to put an obstacle in your way so you can lose. You could even make a video about it. Start repairing! Hug!
@@Arstall yes. I will try with 2 and craft one more if it makes a difference. It's artifact and resists to the cut down/go for the throat, that's my pov.
@@Arstall ive risen to diamond in two days - i have built something disastrously powerful and im looking for big challengers. not to flex but ive never been stronger in my life at least for the first week of a rotation lol
@@daviderde I'm honored to be considered a big challenger and I always love the idea of getting firsthand experience of a disastrously powerful brew. I should have some time in the next couple of days. Shoot me a message on discord and we can try to coordinate a time. discord.gg/tYzJJKSUn2
getting so tired of this deck, its all over the top500 mythic, I really hope for a sellsword ban, turn 3 lethals have nothing to do in standard, and no im not even a control-player, mostly aggro, but this is boring and stupid
@@Arstall its very boring trying t o play a other minion based deck and just just die turn 3 without being able to do nothing, aggro can be countered, but the sellsword makes very boring games, its bad for the game
@@FunkMabassUp I hear ya. Some people think curving out with a deck made entirely of creatures is bad for the game because it lacks interaction. Some people think wraths are bad for the game, counterspells, etc. I think as long as the strategy can be played around or beaten with an alternative strategy it is part of a rock paper scissors meta and doesn't require a ban. The Slickshot + Sellsword deck existed before Bloomburrow as well. It was really the addition of Heartfire Hero that made the deck perform better in bo1. But to quote the dude, that's just like my opinion man. Losing turn 3 without being able to do anything is frustrating for sure. I recommend bo3
creatures is interactive, you fight and block and its back and forth, tbh i think it feels more uninteractive too play against some control deck that just sits there, its interactive for them but not for the opponent. I love both aggro and midrange, I feel aggro has been balanced the last couple of years, but now these lethals out of nowere makes the game almost feel like hearthstone(which is some of the reasons I quit that game). I have a high wr against rakdos aggro with my monoblack list, but its like you said, its kind of rock paper scissors and I guess thats not very my cup of tea, but its gonna be interesting too see how the game evolves this year :) I get your point, as long its counterable its valid and red/fake rakdos is pretty much not that hard too really counter if you build around it
Joking? That name applies to that color combination. Like "Boros", "Izzet" and so on. Those are guilds from Ravnica. There are also names for combinations that have more than 2 colors. For example "Naya" You started playing MTGA when Outlaws Of Thunder Junction came out right?
This explains why Rakdos Aggro still has such a high win rate on untapped.
This was from 5 months ago but the ban on the Leyline really didn't hurt the deck too much. It did knock it down a bit though
9:31 Could've just double pumped and flung. Forgot about it getting the +1/+1 counter
Liked the video, and love the channel/community quality. My T3 OTK version sails more rakdos-ish with jitte, stargaze and feign death etc. Even more fun and interactions ! For those who struggle with MonoB discard : don't play T2 if you're on the draw, their deck strat is to kill your T2 as wincon. Then Otk when they've tapped out on T5. They always have like 8 removals in hand. On the play they'll have to chump the trickster with the stoopid bat and you get your card back, not that of an issue.
Good advice until they don't tap out on T5. Against prowess they should always keep up removal
Being loving this deck on my alt account not to many wildcards to build turn inside out over the banesplitters is really nice lets you play around with some flings that don't quite wipe them if they tap out for an unholy annexe or something like that.
Can't believe this was over 4 months ago. My how time flies
Great video as always. This archetype feels really strong but I put in 4 copies of the dreadmaws ire because the trample just feels too necessary.
I dont have the chaplenger or the heartfire hero yet but when I get it I'm going to try them out with moght of the meek
I saw another list get Mythic #5 that cut down to 16 lands and ran a full play set of Dreadmaw's Ire and 4 Demonic Ruckus instead of the 2 Blazing Crescendo. You could easily do the same but replace the Demonic Ruckus with Might of the Meek. mtga.untapped.gg/profile/c2429b2c-7795-41ec-b961-c2558c4123df/HG4YBSCKD5AL7CHZL5CIPRH7KU/deck/4c1eff5a-f0f2-42cd-ba23-c561e4a1d118?timeFrame=current_season&constructedType=ranked
Saw another comment mention this but also wanted to thank you for showcasing this deck. Felt like it is realtivaley cheap to craft (4 rares if you skip the lands, less if you already have fugitive codebreakers around) for something so powerful. I never bothered to enter a standard event since i am fully f2p and felt like enough people would tech against aggro decks. Just gave this a go and earned a playin points for the first time since starting on mtga a year ago. So many thanks to sharing the deck, its been really fun to explore and feels (maybe a bit too) strong ^^
Hell yeah! Congrats :)
@@Arstall Sorry, needed to come back to say this: This deck is an absolute blast. I was always so afraid to lose my gems in standard events. Got 100 games now across 2 accounts in with this deck (yes, i love it ^^) with 71% winrate. Yes, fun decks can be fun but if you win it's even better 😂
Thank you once again for showing this early. Being early payed off so much for this set and getting some games while others dont know yet
@@hilow8485 My pleasure :) It always amazes me how quickly the meta adapts. Personally I'm already seeing much more single point interaction
Thank you for this deck!
My pleasure :)
Advice for everyone playing this deck-
Mull aggressively to be able to either- kill turn 3, or play through one cut down
Running 19 lands will screw you at one land some games, but imo is worth it
If your going for mythic, conceding early is never bad if you run out of cards in hand!
T1 cacophony/Heartfire, is stronger than t1 swiftspear
Dont run shocks or lighting bolts despite everyone else running them, not running them will make you win the mirror a RIDICULOUS amount of the time! (I think i won like 70-75% of the mirrors)
You can splash green if you want for snakeskin veils and other pump spells, splashing black really doesnt matter lol
Any other questions ill answer in comments :D (or corrections, i have been wrong before heh)
-Top 20 mythic (ive been mythic before with other decks as well)
Good advice. However, I have my doubts about shocks not improving the mirror. When writing out the lines, shock can be a deciding factor especially on the draw. Just be careful about small personal sample sizes :)
@@Arstall Yep, agreed, many times though a cacophony scamp is a better shock as it can trade 2 for 1 as well as trading out for 2
Another thing i forgot to mention is the replacement of shocks are pump spells, which brings your t3 kill up by a significant percentage. If you are on the draw, if your opponent has a shock instead of a t3 kill, you can more reliably kill t3 through the shock (plot a slickshot t2, pump once, shock in response pump again with a snakeskin or dreadmaws ire, then sling it at your opponent)
TLDR- Basically you trade the shock for a higher chance of a t3 kill and can play through a shock with pump spells which makes it imo a better option in the mirror
Tring this deck out and my first 3 games i was mana flooded but game 4 was a turn 3 win. Interesting deck indeed.
I feel 20 lands is slightly on the high side. Previously I had tried 17 and 18 lands but my previous version had less dig to solve flood
@@Arstall may play with the land for a bit, did 10 more games but never got flooded like the 1st 3 games. interestingly I have seen more U/W then mono black but deck is still performing well
@@gix47 It's been pretty smooth sailing for me as well. Not as successful as Mythic #1 in 4.5 hours, but I haven't been making aggressive mulligans
Mythic Mike talked about it also. I haven't tried it yet. Seems a hell of a deck.
It does the trick
only issue is if you play against the same deck and they go first, you automatically lose
happened to me multiple times
some times they miss the turn 3 win but yeah the mirror match often is just who has the play
First time seeing your stream, I like your MTG vibes! I'll be back.
Welcome aboard :)
Voldaren thrillseeker will do??
Yes, if you increase the land count or amount of dig like we see in Gruul Aggro
Thanks for sharing this, has been fun to farm the stadndard event with this for a bit. Gonna make the most of it until everyone catches up :D
Glad to hear it! Farm those gems!
@@Arstall haha i wish you could get meaningful amounts of gems :D But at least its some free packs and playin points
How do you feel about the matchup against mono green stompy??
I feel that it is favored since mono green can lack the instant speed interaction to stop the turn 3 combo. Haven't come up much against it though to be fair
If i dont have the B/R lands should i not be running 4 copies of Callous SellSword? Seems like a decent risk of dead cards if i start with one and top deck one early
I almost never play the black-side of Callous Sellsword. So yes, you can run it without any black mana
Hey I have a question about mythic rank: is it worth to try to push asap to high mythic rank? because I noticed that when I go from Diamond to Mythic I get instantly placed into #7xx... So I was thinking if it is better to just wait until the day before the end of the season to climb up to mythic since I'm gonna be placed in that favorable position already, instead of having to play the entire month against mythic decks and risking my 1200 position to get play-in points.
If you push later in the format you'll be placed around 93% in my experience and still have to grind to top 1200. Most grinders I've seen play early, then sit, and then climb again at the end of the season when they decay below 1200
@@Arstall Ohhh that makes sense... It must be the hidden MMR thing... Thanks a lot for the answer.
@shadowsun4055 From what I've researched, Mythic has it's own MMR separate from Bronze-Diamond. Then to further complicate the matter, they change the Mythic MMR 2 weeks into the season. Definitely some interesting stuff going on behind the scenes
As someone who has lost to this deck, I can confirm, it's annoying as fuck.
confirmed haha
OPP: discard, discard, kill, kill, play 4/4 flying lifelink
EVERY. GAME.
Yeah I think the natural counter is Orzhov but haven't bumped into it much yet
@@Arstall it was all monoblack... I am trying with pure monored prowess, seems to work better (2 or 3 damage spells help a lot for reach)
@@staytoobrenner3982 Isn't sacrificing a creature to deal 2x it's power pretty good reach?
How did you find out the decks the #1 mythic person played in mtga? Is there a place to go to look that stuff up I’m curious to see what it looks like :0
Untapped probably
untapped.gg
Very good vídeo. Especially the part on the lands, I had the exact question
Thank you
thanks, a nice easy craft of a few cards. will play this until the meta settles
Farm those wins!
@Arstall update, first time to Mythic in a long time farming with this deck. Thank you again sir 👍
@@Sw0rDf1sH Hell yeah! Congrats on the mythic climb!
Brother, thank you very much for the video! It's excellent for those who don't have much time to play. But I DOUBT you only spent that long (4.5 hours) to get mythic. Not that you aren't capable, but Arena's balance prevents this, making you fail lands, muligarize at 5, only buy lands, almost always play on draw... or even making you take 3 or 4 removals in the first turns , making you face decks that have cards that nullify your strategy, etc. WHENEVER you start to have a lot of wins in a row, Arena finds a way to put an obstacle in your way so you can lose. You could even make a video about it. Start repairing! Hug!
Link is in the description
don't you think 17 lands are too few, we alway want to draw the third land and often we are locked ad two
List is running 20 right?
@@Arstall lol, watched by my phone and i confused 1 with 4, sorry
@@mattiaferrecchi339 haha, no worries
funny, this is the only deck my rakdos lizards was losing to tonight
Rakdos Lizards is also amazing. Might want to consider some shock/cut down/go for the throat to snipe the slickshots
have you played with the throne yet ? benefits ?
@@tonton1047 I haven't yet. I assume you're talking about Roaming Throne?
@@Arstall yes. I will try with 2 and craft one more if it makes a difference. It's artifact and resists to the cut down/go for the throat, that's my pov.
@@tonton1047 Let me know how it goes. I could see it being a great fit with the lizard synergies
Some similarities to the Skeleton Rak deck you covered of mine. The sell sword is sooo tricky...you can win out of nowhere lol
Definitely
Watching
I think you'll like this one :)
Cool deck gonna try it out
Thanks
hey dude id love to play you with my standard deck if you're down for b03 :)
Difficult to find the time but perhaps one day
@@Arstall ive risen to diamond in two days - i have built something disastrously powerful and im looking for big challengers. not to flex but ive never been stronger in my life at least for the first week of a rotation lol
@@daviderde I'm honored to be considered a big challenger and I always love the idea of getting firsthand experience of a disastrously powerful brew. I should have some time in the next couple of days. Shoot me a message on discord and we can try to coordinate a time. discord.gg/tYzJJKSUn2
less than a week later and this deck isn't even viable anymore. everyone is on life gain or black control in both ranked and play queue.
The game of rock, paper, scissors has begun
Me play one mana card, me play 2 mana card, me pump!! ME WIN!! 😴
4 minutes to explain a deck that takes 2 brain cells to play 😂
I mean most magic strategies can be explained in 30 seconds or less if you really like that sort of thing...
why rakdos lands? no need
You can definitely cut the lands. Occasionally you get to play the sell sword out as a 5/5 but it's impact is minimal
getting so tired of this deck, its all over the top500 mythic, I really hope for a sellsword ban, turn 3 lethals have nothing to do in standard, and no im not even a control-player, mostly aggro, but this is boring and stupid
I'm guessing it won't be as prevalent in the next season since most people have added in more single point removal to counter it
@@Arstall its very boring trying t o play a other minion based deck and just just die turn 3 without being able to do nothing, aggro can be countered, but the sellsword makes very boring games, its bad for the game
@@FunkMabassUp I hear ya. Some people think curving out with a deck made entirely of creatures is bad for the game because it lacks interaction. Some people think wraths are bad for the game, counterspells, etc. I think as long as the strategy can be played around or beaten with an alternative strategy it is part of a rock paper scissors meta and doesn't require a ban. The Slickshot + Sellsword deck existed before Bloomburrow as well. It was really the addition of Heartfire Hero that made the deck perform better in bo1. But to quote the dude, that's just like my opinion man. Losing turn 3 without being able to do anything is frustrating for sure. I recommend bo3
creatures is interactive, you fight and block and its back and forth, tbh i think it feels more uninteractive too play against some control deck that just sits there, its interactive for them but not for the opponent. I love both aggro and midrange, I feel aggro has been balanced the last couple of years, but now these lethals out of nowere makes the game almost feel like hearthstone(which is some of the reasons I quit that game). I have a high wr against rakdos aggro with my monoblack list, but its like you said, its kind of rock paper scissors and I guess thats not very my cup of tea, but its gonna be interesting too see how the game evolves this year :) I get your point, as long its counterable its valid and red/fake rakdos is pretty much not that hard too really counter if you build around it
I absolutely despise this archetype in MTG. Genuinely wish it didn't exist.
I prefer it to losing after 20 minutes to Azorius Control at 1 life haha
Pretty sure the archetype you do prefer is the one I wish didn’t exist. Lol.
@@jackduey2280 My fav is Mono-White Humans but I think rotation did it in
Wanting to win on turn three every game …. How about just don’t play at that point? Idk seems boring to me.
We could say the same thing about UW every rotation. Seems boring but wins are wins, maybe?
Wanting to win fast as possible always
Not sure turn 4, which was the previous average in bo1, makes it that much more interesting with that line of logic. Your solution is bo3
All valid points, definitely play how you want to. :)
I’m just grinding to mythic for the rewards at end of season. Then I play for fun
Rakdos not in the deck but named after him... interesting.
Joking? That name applies to that color combination. Like "Boros", "Izzet" and so on. Those are guilds from Ravnica. There are also names for combinations that have more than 2 colors. For example "Naya"
You started playing MTGA when Outlaws Of Thunder Junction came out right?
It refers to the color combination.
As the comments above covered. It's the name for black-red.
lol u r platinum...in 4,5 hours from platinum to mithyc #1?? come on man....
Sorry! My mistake lol
Did you guys even listen, he's playing the list magic Christian (the #1 mythic player) used to get to mythic
Link showing the climb is in the description
Alright, just got to mythic in under 5 hours with this deck :D mythic 36 rn quite a easy push tbh started in bronze lol
@@ribbitfroog271 Hell yeah!